I experimented with it about 15 years ago. Did you take the large attack dose of about 4500mg and then follow that with 1000-1500mg a day? Most importantly, were you taking any choline supplements? I remember the wonky feeling you described. I've heard it comes from choline depletion. I've been wanting to take some piracetium lately to see if the increased right-left brain synergy helps with martial arts training.
You were a good phone with all of your CTEK enabled goodness. I for one miss the days of A/B channel cellular in Los Angeles. It may have taken a while to actually get a call to go through but once you were connected, the call quality was rock solid. When the call dropped it dropped, but when it was connected, it was much more clear than the digital connections we have today.
It isn't because Macs are in the minority that they aren't vulnerable to exploits. There simply aren't as many vectors for infection/compromise on a crapintosh. If you want to spread some more educated sounding FUD, focus on how now that Apples are using the x86 Intel architecture, the real hackers who have been writing x86 based assembly code since the late 1980s can now port their knowledge over to the Apple platform.
By the time the knowledge is ported over the Army will have seen it coming. The fact that they are going with Macs goes to show that they see it coming and they understand the nature of the threat.
Sadly they are. I'm running a fully patched XP box with IE7 as my browser and I almost got hit with a virus earlier this week. I went to a website that I visit all the time and it was compromised. It loaded a malicious script that popped up one of those annoying windows, "Your computer is infected with malware, do you want to clean it? Yes/Cancel." At that point I knew things were already bad so I opened Process Explorer and killed the IE process. Simply killing the process dropped a trojan downloader into my IE temp directory. Symantec AV caught the downloader at that point. If I hadn't had AV on the box it would be owned right now.
Really this is not that complicated unless a MBR payload is used.
Or until you get a.dll file that hooks LSASS or WINLOGON. I eventually used pendmove to delete the.dll but then the system hung when booting the OS. It was a Win2K box with out of date AV running IE 5.0 so I can't really hate on Microsoft for that one. If it had been up to date it wouldn't have been infected.
To be fair I absolutely love Snow Crash and think it was a great book. But come on IBM, get real! Why not invest in some of that nifty Cisco infrastructure that allows you to communicate with anyone anywhere? That seems a lot more productive than logging onto some virtual under water world so that everyone can conference with silly looking avatars.
[shameless plug for Dell extended tech support plans].
I think the same can be said for most vendors extended tech support. If you are willing to pay the extra money for better support they are really going to give you better support. At least that has been my experience with Compaq/HP.
It's news because there aren't exploits that do this on any flavor of Windows. The article states that it exploits a flaw in HP software running under Windows. That's kind of like saying that an exploit in PHP makes Apache insecure.
Will they ever be able to fill FSMO roles? How about providing NETLOGON share functionality to permit the replication of group policy objects and logon scripts? I imagine that Microsoft will probably draw the line some where. I doubt that they'd let a third party have all of the knowledge required to produce an Active Directory domain.
Am I going to be able to run a Linux based Domain Controller? Is my Samba box going to be able to publish Active Directory compatible ACLs for the shares it hosts? Is nmap now going to tell me that Samba boxes are Win2K3 servers?!?!;)
You're right about them being pricey. The only class I took was an introduction to programming with Visual Basic.Net. I was expecting just a standard intro to how to use the program but the instructor did a great job of teaching actual programming fundamentals all the way from declaring variables, to setting up the right code structure and how to properly use the various functions. Granted it was basic stuff, but it was also a basic class.
Sure, and when Internet Explorer 9 rolls around, they'll use the fact that Internet Explorer 8 supports this old junk as an excuse to keep the proprietary behaviour around. And then when Internet Explorer 10 is released, they'll be telling us that they need to keep it because that's the way Internet Explorer 9 worked.
True, but if IE9 supports standards then who cares if it also supports older proprietary junk? Just code to the standards that it does support and ignore the web pages written by other people that you don't have any control over.
By the time Internet Explorer 8 is released, the CSS 1, 2 and HTML 4 specifications will all be a decade old. That's more than long enough to support behaviour that only existed because the specifications weren't published yet.
I don't understand what you're getting at. IE8 is starting to support standards. Who cares if they want to support their MS-centric implementations of the standards if the browser also supports W3C or IETF or whatever other standards?
Other people have told me that they've had good experience with Extension teachers who are serious and dedicated. I'm sure they're out there, but I haven't encountered any.
It has been my experience that the technical teachers who do the UCLA extension programs are great. Unless you are in the Los Angeles area that probably doesn't do you much good.
Many sites and developers have done special work to work well with IE6, mostly as a result of the evolution of the web and standards since 2001 and the level of support in the various versions of IE that pre-date many standards.
... is...IE was doing things with web pages before there were standard ways to do those things. So IE needs to continue to support the IE way of doing things, in addition to the standard way of doing them. I could be wrong about this one, but I seem to remember the IE had a "mouse over" function before there was a standard for mouse over. I'm sure that there are numerous examples on both sides of the fence where IE either did or did not do something before or after another "standard" way was proposed to do it.
I think a more correct analogy would be... If you write some code in Visual Basic that works should you have to re-write the code in Visual C#, or should Microsoft come up with something like the.Net compiler that will interpret both Basic and C# code?
I think that when all is said and done it will be the application vendors who determine who the winner of the browser war is. "Alternative" browsers are widely available at this point in time. If a vendor wants to write a Web 2.0 or whatever buzzword powered app, they can do so and can realistically expect that their target audience will have access to the requisite browser to run the app. The question then comes down to what technology they want to use, be it Java, ASP or whatever.
I do that all the time with my mad tyte psychological mind skills. The girls never even know that I'm honing my Jedi penetration skills on them, but I've been told my beady eyes and upper lip sweat could give me away some day.
While not exactly a workshop per se, it was the biggest waste of time. My employer basically paid for me to have people try to sell me stuff. Aren't the sales people supposed to be paying me for my time in the form of free lunches, dinners, blow and strippers?
What has your career path looked like? What is your education level like? I've been doing IT since 1996 and before that most of my interest in computers came from 2600 meetings and all of the associated subject matter that comes with that. I've done most of my work in the SMB sector for clients with 20-250 employees and single to multiple sites. I'm interested in stepping into a more senior position where I can oversee other people because I truly believe that is where my strengths lie. I've had the good fortune to work for good bosses who were able to pass along their knowledge and provide me with the kind of work environment where I could grow into my position and develop competencies that were of benefit to my employers. I want to be one of those bosses who is not only able to make sure that the IT department provides excellent service to the organization, but who can also mentor and teach the younger guys who are just getting into the field. Often times I receive complements along the lines of, "You're very well spoken and socially adjusted for an IT guy." I've always believed that one of my great strengths has been translating IT tech speak and concepts into plain language that decision makers are able to understand. Having spent a good seven years consulting I got really good at helping clients to understand where they needed to invest resources to address their business issues. I understand the fundamental security concepts and am very familiar with the various auditing tools. I just don't know where to start looking for employment.
I might have missed it in the logic you presented, but where do you account for hardware failure? If your box with the direct attached storage goes down then all access to that data ceases. If you're running a SAN with the app servers clustered, when you lose one of the boxes the cluster fails over and your users still have access to the data.
Easier and less expensive to manage and less to go wrong.
When "less" becomes a single point of failure you have problems. In this day and age you have to assume that something is going to go wrong and then setup systems that fail gracefully.
My current employer had to implement a policy restricting access to web mail (Outlook Web Access) so that only salaried employees could use it. Like just about every other HR based decision it came after the company got sued. An employee wanted all sorts of back pay for "working from home" even though her boss didn't ask her to.
Got fired inside of fifteen minutes. Probably deserved it, too.
There are some clients who are like that and you just need to let them go. It always sucks to lose a client, but in the long run you're usually better off because you can divert your resources to less high maintenance clients. I had let a client go who had unreasonable expectations. Whatever we did was never good enough for her. She decided that she needed to find other consultants on three seperate occassions. After about six months with someone else, she'd come back to us. On the third time she wanted to come back we told her to F off.
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I experimented with it about 15 years ago. Did you take the large attack dose of about 4500mg and then follow that with 1000-1500mg a day? Most importantly, were you taking any choline supplements? I remember the wonky feeling you described. I've heard it comes from choline depletion. I've been wanting to take some piracetium lately to see if the increased right-left brain synergy helps with martial arts training.
You were a good phone with all of your CTEK enabled goodness. I for one miss the days of A/B channel cellular in Los Angeles. It may have taken a while to actually get a call to go through but once you were connected, the call quality was rock solid. When the call dropped it dropped, but when it was connected, it was much more clear than the digital connections we have today.
By the time the knowledge is ported over the Army will have seen it coming. The fact that they are going with Macs goes to show that they see it coming and they understand the nature of the threat.
Sadly they are. I'm running a fully patched XP box with IE7 as my browser and I almost got hit with a virus earlier this week. I went to a website that I visit all the time and it was compromised. It loaded a malicious script that popped up one of those annoying windows, "Your computer is infected with malware, do you want to clean it? Yes/Cancel." At that point I knew things were already bad so I opened Process Explorer and killed the IE process. Simply killing the process dropped a trojan downloader into my IE temp directory. Symantec AV caught the downloader at that point. If I hadn't had AV on the box it would be owned right now.
Or gives him old school points for keeping a pre-internet meme alive.
Or until you get a .dll file that hooks LSASS or WINLOGON. I eventually used pendmove to delete the .dll but then the system hung when booting the OS. It was a Win2K box with out of date AV running IE 5.0 so I can't really hate on Microsoft for that one. If it had been up to date it wouldn't have been infected.
To be fair I absolutely love Snow Crash and think it was a great book. But come on IBM, get real! Why not invest in some of that nifty Cisco infrastructure that allows you to communicate with anyone anywhere? That seems a lot more productive than logging onto some virtual under water world so that everyone can conference with silly looking avatars.
I think the same can be said for most vendors extended tech support. If you are willing to pay the extra money for better support they are really going to give you better support. At least that has been my experience with Compaq/HP.
It's news because there aren't exploits that do this on any flavor of Windows. The article states that it exploits a flaw in HP software running under Windows. That's kind of like saying that an exploit in PHP makes Apache insecure.
Will they ever be able to fill FSMO roles? How about providing NETLOGON share functionality to permit the replication of group policy objects and logon scripts? I imagine that Microsoft will probably draw the line some where. I doubt that they'd let a third party have all of the knowledge required to produce an Active Directory domain.
The title should have been, "What does this mean in the real world?" Grammar Nazi's please pardon me.
Am I going to be able to run a Linux based Domain Controller? Is my Samba box going to be able to publish Active Directory compatible ACLs for the shares it hosts? Is nmap now going to tell me that Samba boxes are Win2K3 servers?!?! ;)
You're right about them being pricey. The only class I took was an introduction to programming with Visual Basic .Net. I was expecting just a standard intro to how to use the program but the instructor did a great job of teaching actual programming fundamentals all the way from declaring variables, to setting up the right code structure and how to properly use the various functions. Granted it was basic stuff, but it was also a basic class.
True, but if IE9 supports standards then who cares if it also supports older proprietary junk? Just code to the standards that it does support and ignore the web pages written by other people that you don't have any control over.
By the time Internet Explorer 8 is released, the CSS 1, 2 and HTML 4 specifications will all be a decade old. That's more than long enough to support behaviour that only existed because the specifications weren't published yet.
I don't understand what you're getting at. IE8 is starting to support standards. Who cares if they want to support their MS-centric implementations of the standards if the browser also supports W3C or IETF or whatever other standards?
It has been my experience that the technical teachers who do the UCLA extension programs are great. Unless you are in the Los Angeles area that probably doesn't do you much good.
Defcon 1... just because I can say that I was there, and Luwdig's presentation on polymorphic stealth ASM code was pretty cool.
Many sites and developers have done special work to work well with IE6, mostly as a result of the evolution of the web and standards since 2001 and the level of support in the various versions of IE that pre-date many standards.
... is...IE was doing things with web pages before there were standard ways to do those things. So IE needs to continue to support the IE way of doing things, in addition to the standard way of doing them. I could be wrong about this one, but I seem to remember the IE had a "mouse over" function before there was a standard for mouse over. I'm sure that there are numerous examples on both sides of the fence where IE either did or did not do something before or after another "standard" way was proposed to do it.
I think a more correct analogy would be... If you write some code in Visual Basic that works should you have to re-write the code in Visual C#, or should Microsoft come up with something like the .Net compiler that will interpret both Basic and C# code?
I think that when all is said and done it will be the application vendors who determine who the winner of the browser war is. "Alternative" browsers are widely available at this point in time. If a vendor wants to write a Web 2.0 or whatever buzzword powered app, they can do so and can realistically expect that their target audience will have access to the requisite browser to run the app. The question then comes down to what technology they want to use, be it Java, ASP or whatever.
Sounds to me like you just need $1000 and 24 hours in Vegas. ;)
I do that all the time with my mad tyte psychological mind skills. The girls never even know that I'm honing my Jedi penetration skills on them, but I've been told my beady eyes and upper lip sweat could give me away some day.
While not exactly a workshop per se, it was the biggest waste of time. My employer basically paid for me to have people try to sell me stuff. Aren't the sales people supposed to be paying me for my time in the form of free lunches, dinners, blow and strippers?
What has your career path looked like? What is your education level like? I've been doing IT since 1996 and before that most of my interest in computers came from 2600 meetings and all of the associated subject matter that comes with that. I've done most of my work in the SMB sector for clients with 20-250 employees and single to multiple sites. I'm interested in stepping into a more senior position where I can oversee other people because I truly believe that is where my strengths lie. I've had the good fortune to work for good bosses who were able to pass along their knowledge and provide me with the kind of work environment where I could grow into my position and develop competencies that were of benefit to my employers. I want to be one of those bosses who is not only able to make sure that the IT department provides excellent service to the organization, but who can also mentor and teach the younger guys who are just getting into the field. Often times I receive complements along the lines of, "You're very well spoken and socially adjusted for an IT guy." I've always believed that one of my great strengths has been translating IT tech speak and concepts into plain language that decision makers are able to understand. Having spent a good seven years consulting I got really good at helping clients to understand where they needed to invest resources to address their business issues. I understand the fundamental security concepts and am very familiar with the various auditing tools. I just don't know where to start looking for employment.
Easier and less expensive to manage and less to go wrong.
When "less" becomes a single point of failure you have problems. In this day and age you have to assume that something is going to go wrong and then setup systems that fail gracefully.
My current employer had to implement a policy restricting access to web mail (Outlook Web Access) so that only salaried employees could use it. Like just about every other HR based decision it came after the company got sued. An employee wanted all sorts of back pay for "working from home" even though her boss didn't ask her to.
Use the RunAs command young Jedi.
There are some clients who are like that and you just need to let them go. It always sucks to lose a client, but in the long run you're usually better off because you can divert your resources to less high maintenance clients. I had let a client go who had unreasonable expectations. Whatever we did was never good enough for her. She decided that she needed to find other consultants on three seperate occassions. After about six months with someone else, she'd come back to us. On the third time she wanted to come back we told her to F off.